...years under the auspices of the United States government, of the region between the Mississippi and tho Rocky Mountains, have revealed the startling fact...reached the extreme western limit of the areas available fur settlement, and that the whole space west of the 98th parallel, embracing one half of the entire...

...Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains, have revealed the startling fact in the physics of the United 509 States, that the westward progress of its population...the whole space west of the 98th parallel, embracing one half of the entire surface of the United States, is an arid and desolate waste, with the exception...

...this fertile region, because, already, the western progress of the population of the United States has nearly reached the extreme western limit of the areas available for settlement within the United States. It is not sufficiently understood in England that the greater part of the...

...between the Mississippi and the Rocky mountains, the startling facts are revealed, that the western progress of its population has nearly reached the...waste, with the exception of a narrow belt of rich land along the Pacific coast," "That rich, but narrow belt, referred to, has already beeil blocked...

...between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains, reveals to us the startling facts : « That the western progress of its population, has nearly reached the...for settlement ; and that the whole space west of th,ninety-eighth parallel, embracing one-half of the entire surface of the United States, is an arid...